Aspirus St. Luke's has launched a new extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program to provide lifesaving heart and lung ...
Researchers suggest "total artificial lung" approach might make double-lung transplant saf ...
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is usually a last resort strategy for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but for cases from COVID-19 should it come sooner? Starting awake ECMO ...
A $97,128 gift from the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation is bringing a new CentriMag ECMO system to St. Agnes Hospital.
Registry data reaffirmed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a reasonable strategy for COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory problems, with most survivors discharged home and several ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic ventilators were in short supply. Now a different treatment is in demand for the sickest of Covid patients. ECMO therapy is a last-resort ...
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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- Brooke Army Medical Center has received national recognition for its lifesaving heart-lung bypass program. BAMC's adult extracorporeal membrane ...
Breathing. That critical inhale/exhale operation of the lungs is something we often take for granted — until something goes wrong and respiratory problems result. The Center for Acute Respiratory ...
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a method of providing heart and lung support to patients, usually following a heart attack, when the heart is no longer capable of pumping blood around ...
The latest miracle machine in modern medicine – whose use has skyrocketed in recent years – is saving people from the brink of death: adults whose lungs have been ravaged by the flu; a trucker who was ...